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  1. User Name
    ...or if they think that making a big splash will earn them money. Sure worked in 2011.
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    Texas has no income tax, and the Yankee org is currently kind of a mess. Can ya blame him?
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    7/130. Good deal for him.
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    So why would they then downgrade their offense trading Rios? I don't see it. Even if they did, why would the Red Sox take on a salary dump when they wanna dump salary (probably Dempster's ) themselves?
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    Why would the Rangers trade Rios? And why would the Sox trade for him? That wouldn't make sense for either team. Denorfia is an interesting target who hits lefties hard.
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    Interesting article by Matt Gelb on Jonathan Papelbon aka the Rivera Highway rider: The Phillies' Papelbon problem is on Amaro
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    What i wouldn't have thought was the fanbase turning from long-suffering to insufferably entitled in the same span. Even worse, most of the more entitled fans are pink-hats and bandwagon jumpers. Oh, the horror.
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    Fixed
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    At the expense of production from the 2014 club? Doubtful. Keep in mind that in 2013 the #6 starter made a hell of a lot more than 20 starts with Buchholz on the shelf for half a season and various other situations. Dumping Dempster and keeping Workman in a swing role giving him near full workload sounds like the correct course of action.
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    Wouldn't that mean they're trying to dump Dempster to open up the #6 spot for Workman? Because with Buchholz and Peavy, you know it's going to get some use. I don't see how you can conclude that it'd be Lackey or Peavy instead. That would weaken the rotation and make little sense.
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    He hit a HR every 20.74 AB's in 2013. If you adjust his entire sample to this number, you come up with a very healthy 30 HR's. And the problem isn't sustaining the power. The power is real, and that's indisputable. The problem is the rest of the package, mainly his on-base skills. I don't understand why you're trying to use the one thing in WMB's game that's clearly sustainable as means of criticizing him.
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    Okajima never closed. You are talking about Uehara.
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    I need to literally thank you for this post. Fred's irrational hate-boner against Francona is both annoying and grounded on a lot of nonsense.
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    Jacko said he does not expect JBJ to break 5 WAR next year, but that on a dollar-to-win ratio, he should beat out Choo, which is a given if he's making league minimum while Choo makes around 20 mill.
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    They're not interested in the return, they wanna dump the 6 mil + he'll make in arb. Whether or not he can't hit a breaking ball, there are several teams with gaping hole at 1st who appear as interested per repeated reports from different sources. The fact that he hit .286/.449/.505 during the second half of last season with more BB's than K's doesn't hurt his case either. Something may have clicked.
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    Net runs scored on SBs is something you pretty much made up.
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    The real problem with WMB (per scouts) is pitch recognition, and that's a hard skill to improve, but not impossible. If he could learn to lay off breaking balls in the low-outside quadrant of the strike-zone, you're looking at 25 + HR, .330+ OBP seasons for the duration of his prime.
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    Subpar reading comprehension is a common problem around these parts.
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    No, you are incorrect. The power to hit 30 HRs is there, but what good are thirty HR's if he can barely get on base, or even make consistent contact?
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    I wanted to post this, but didn't wanna pick nits.
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    Nope, can only overlay the HR's.
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    Lemme check if the option's available.
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    Brett Gardner's NYS Home Runs with a Fenway Park overlay: 2013: http://hittrackeronline.com/overlay/overlay_1387042497_41597015.jpg I'm sure maturing physically didn't have anything to do with it right? Also, as the Tracker shows, it's not like his HR's last year were mostly cheap shots, as you pretty much fabricated in your post above.
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    No it isn't. And he doesn't have to be as good as Choo to be more valuable if he can play a good defensive CF.
  25. User Name
    Except that Reynolds has hit 30+ in a season, and multiple times.
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